My tea this morning is perfect.  As Premier of China and head of government and the State Council, I seldom get a bad cup of tea.  The intra-party struggles have been resolved.  We seem to be managing that burst of inflation that reared its head in the economy.  Our balance of payments continues to grow spectacularly in our favor.  Things are fine.  We need to open up credit a bit more, but generally we are on our way.  Why do I feel so odd, then?

I should be happy about where things stand.  I have done a good job.  Most people have no clue what it took to get to the top of a nation of more than one billion people.  I got to this place by working my tail off, and I am proud of what I have done.  The weird thing is that it could all come undone.  Oh, some democratic uprising will not topple the party.  Deng Xiaoping was right.  People would be happier if we opened up the system and got them more apples.  Turns out they are delirious about Apples – both making and having them.  What is it, though?  What’s bugging me?

Looking out the window, it comes to me.  We have no idea who the next President of the United States will be.  The political cadres tell me that despite his standing in the polls – polls, what a way to run a country – that Mr. Obama will win re-election.  How do I feel about that?  I’m really not sure.  If we did not need America so much, we hardly would care.  But they are the largest market for our products.  Oh, that reminds me, I have to get the chieftains of our solar- panel industry sector together and congratulate them on running the Americans into the ground.  Can you imagine spending more than $500 billion and have nothing to show for it except a huge empty building!  I wonder if that Solyndra thing is on the market.  I need to call our real estate unit.

But that is the contradiction: If America goes under before we push our economic progress down into the masses, we could go under, too.  And if America elects a President that caters first to the impulse to cut spending and invest in nothing, then the United States will descend over time and then we ourselves are in trouble.

Who on the horizon other than Obama might do a better job at keeping America together for as long as we need?  I saw Rick Perry on television.  Wow.  I thought that Bush boy was out of his element.  Wow.  They both claimed they created jobs.  Ha.  No one creates jobs like I create jobs.  And with my degree in geology, I probably know more about the physical composition of the oil fields of their West Texas than both of them put together.

And this Herman Cain.  A silly sensation.  And, really, they cannot be serious about Newt Gingrich.  Odious man.  Slippery.  And who and what is Mitt Romney?  Over the years I, too, had to talk out of both sides of my mouth, but I never left a public record chronicling it all.

Are the Americans for real?  Propping up people like these for even a moment makes me and the rest of the world nervous.  My strategic thinking suggests that any of the Republicans would be great for us – if we were further down the road with the development of our great nation.

I worry about Jon Huntsman, though.  While here as America’s ambassador, he knows where things stand here and in America as well, I would imagine.  I still think we will outperform them in the long run, but Huntsman might be the only person who knows there is still time for America to get its act together.  But not unlike the old Communist Party cliques before we got rid of them, a small band of crazies are in charge of his party, and Huntsman will not win the nomination, or will he?  Huntsman and that Marco Rubio on the ticket, hmm, my political shop better be on top of this.

I do not know why Obama is in his current predicament.  I am told his support is down slightly among his own black population.  The youth are discouraged. The HispanicLatino vote is not in the bag.  Yet, he kept things together.  Better than I expected.  Three years ago during the financial meltdown, everything looked shaky – for everybody.  I was scared to death.

I am sure things will turn out alright for him.  But what if they don’t and I end up with a crazie?

Drat, my tea has gone cold.

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